Patch Troubles

[Indy1958]

Dear All:

Good afternoon from Canada!! I hope this finds you and yours well. As for me, I could complain...yadda, yadda, yadda.

I've just downloaded the 1.2 patch for Med II, but I can't install it for it keeps telling me this: "Application has performed an illegal instruction and will close."

Questions here: 1) What the blazes does this mean? 2) Is it something I did? 3)Is it something Gus, my computer, did? 4) What would DOS have to do with a modern day game?

This is beginning to drive me bananas up here. Any suggestions, helpful hints and/or vague will be entertained here.

Live long and prosper, take care and thank you kindly!!!!

Sincerely yours always,

Indy.

[Guru]

Good evening from Finland!

I'm not very good with computers but it seems to me that either your patch file or game installation is somehow corrupted. If I had such a problem I'd re-download that huge patch file (Duh!) and try again. If that wouldn't work I'd re-install the game and then install the patch. I've heard some people have had similar problems with the patch but re-downloading did help. You might want to hear some other opinions before starting such large operations... Just in case someone else knows better.

- Guru

[Ramses II CP]

Before redownloading, check to see if the file size on your end is the same as from where you're downloading it. From what I can see, it should be 643,088,529 bytes. If there's a variance, you probably do need to redownload, if there isn't a variance... hmm, your first step should probably be to reinstall the unpatched game.

Good luck. :)

(edited for clarity)

[Indy1958]

Dear Ramses:

Good afternoon from Canada!!! I hope this finds you and yours well. As for me, I could complain...yadda, yadda, yadda.

You told me to see if the number of bytes for the files matched. How do I do this? Do I go back to the site from where I got the file in the first place? I could do that.

Live long and prosper, take care and thank you kindly!!!!!

Sincerely yours always,

Indy.

[Guru]

Right click on the file you've downloaded and select "properties" to see its exact size. Then see if it matches with the size it should be.

-Guru

[Minister of Fear]

I cannot patch M2TW to 1.2 even after uninstalling, deleting SEGA folder, re0installing and then patching game to 1.2. During the installation of patch 1.2 I get the following message and always the following message:

Error: invalid or missing target

H:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\data\sounds\Voice1.dat

Update cannot be continued

Help.